Breakthrough is a 6 ‑month employability programme designed as astepping stone to get you workplace experience and all-important employment skills. This short placement gives you insight into afuture career in the Creative Industry, supporting your confidence and professionalism in the workplace, and helping you to break through into acareer that matters toyou!
As aCreative Learning Assistant, you will be an integral member of the Stopgap Dance Company’s Creative Learning Team. This hands-on role offers the opportunity to gain valuable experience in inclusive dance education by supporting youth programmes, workshops, and associated administrative tasks.
Key Responsibilities:
* Support weekly sessions with our youth dance companies
* Help with administrative tasks across the Creative Learning department including IRIS &Seedbed Online
* Assist in the organisation and delivery of our annual Winter Platform event
* Provide support for external workshops and outreach events
* Provide support with social media and marketing within the creative learning team
There will also be opportunities to attend training sessions with the wider company.
About the employer
Stopgap Dance Company is driven by adiverse creative team who uses dance as amovement for change. Our mission is to create an inclusive world where diversity is not just accepted but pursued, aworld where no one is limited by prejudice against Deaf, Disabled, or neurodivergent people.
Working with an artform shaped by human touch and energised by the spark of connectivity, our work demonstrates the compelling power of diversity and inclusivity. We move together to create aremarkable experience that transforms society’s perceptions ofdifference and dismantle the inequity of privilege, in dance and in all aspects of living, collaborating, and creating together as humans.
Our work is both focused on and born out of the company’s rigorous investment in equity and inclusive culture. We try to remove barriers to dance, nurturing the talents of all dancers. We work with various organisations moving towards abetter representation of diversity on our stages and in society.
We are aglobal leader of disability access in dance and continuously examine best practice. We actively advocate for the industry and the wider world to become more inclusive. We employ professional diverse dancers and creatives who create exhilarating dance productions for national and international touring. We support emerging artists through our traineeship, mentoring and creative programs.
All our programmes are designed to improve access to dance and to support the development of future diverse dance talent.
Deadline for applications
The deadline is 11 : 45 pm, on 17 August
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